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Book SynopsisBorn in 70 BCE, the Roman poet Vergil came of age during a period of literary experimentalism among Latin authors. These authors introduced new Greek verse forms and metres into the existing repertoire of Latin poetic genres and measures, foremost among them being elegy, a genre that the ancients thought originated in funeral lament, but which in classical Rome became first-person poetry about the poet-lover’s amatory vicissitudes. Despite the influence of notable elegists on Vergil’s early poetry, his critics have rarely paid attention to his engagement with the genre across his body of work.
This collection is devoted to an exploration of Vergil’s multifaceted relations with elegy. Contributors shed light on Vergil’s interactions with the genre and its practitioners across classical, medieval, and early modern periods. The book investigates Vergil’s hexameter poetry in relation to contemporary Latin elegy by Gallus, Tibullus, and Pr
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Alison Keith Part One: Elegy in Vergil 1. Elegy and Metapoetic Polemic in Vergil’s First Eclogue John Henkel 2. Generic Polemic in the Bucolics: Vergil, Gallus, and remedia amoris Jacqueline Fabre-Serris 3. Elegiac Revaluations of the Golden Age: Saturn’s Exile in Vergil and Tibullus Hunter H. Gardner 4. Roman Returns: Nostos in Vergil and Propertius Micah Y. Myers 5. Lust in Lions and Lovers: Hunting for Civic Virtue in Vergil, Propertius, and Early Greek Elegy Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides 6. From Caieta to Erato: Vergil’s Elegiac Program in Aeneid 7.1–45 Sarah McCallum 7. Elegising the Roman Dirge Bill Gladhill Part Two: Vergil in Ovidian Elegy 8. Pasiphaë in Vergil’s Bucolics and Ovid’s Ars Amatoria: A Bovine Lover’s Discourse Mariapia Pietropaolo 9. Supprime, Musa, querellas: Ovid’s Elegiac Aristaeus Barbara Weiden Boyd 10. Lamenting Tibullus as Literary Critique: Elegy and Vergilian Epic in Ovid, Amores 3.9 Judith P. Hallett 11. The Hero and the Procuress: Anna and Her Elegiac Interface Sophia Papaioannou 12. The Presence of Vergil in Ovid’s Epistulae ex Ponto 1.8 Garth Tissol Part Three: Vergil and Elegy in Imperial Latin Literature 13. The Errant Flock: Calpurnius Siculus’ Bucolic Response to Elegy Yelena Baraz 14. From Militia Amoris to Amor Militiae: Language of Rape in Lucan’s Account of the Deforestation of the Sacred Grove of Massilia Giulio Celotto 15. Through the Looking Glass: Epic Exempla and Elegiac Mirrors in the Argonautica Jessica Blum-Sorensen 16. Epic and Elegy in the Poems of Statius Alessandra De Cristofaro Part Four: Vergil’s Elegiac Mode in Reception 17. Et in Arcadia Ego: Vergil the Elegist Nandini B. Pandey 18. The Absence of Elegiac Poets in Servius’ Commentary on Vergil Giancarlo Abbamonte 19. Ovidian Ghosts in Ausonius’ Mourning Fields: Reading Vergil through Ovid in the Cupido Cruciatus Kenneth Draper 20. Vergil’s Renaissance Rebirth: Genre and Geography in Pontano, Eridanus 1.14 Luke Roman 21. Vergil and Antiquarian Poetry in Distichs in the Kingdom of Naples: Four Case Studies (Fifteenth–Sixteenth Centuries) Lorenzo Miletti 22. Elegiac Loss and the Poetics of Translation in Vergil’s Aeneid and Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso Joseph Ortiz Works Cited Contributors Index Locorum General Index
